Detail View: Medieval Collection: Gospel of Matthew

Image Number: 
JRL0911975dc
Reference Number: 
English MS 81
Previous Accession Number: 
R4995
Link to Catalogue: 
Image Title: 
Gospel of Matthew
Alternative Image Title: 
Jesus is buried
Parent Work Title: 
New Testament
Alternative Parent Work Title: 
Later Version Wycliffe New Testament
Creator: 
Matthew, the Apostle, Saint
Creator Role: 
Author
Creator Attribution: 
Wycliffe, John, -1384
Display Creator: 
Wycliffe, John, -1384
Date Created: 
14th century [late]
Page: 
20v
Image Sequence Number: 
020v
Description: 
Gospel of Matthew: chapters twenty-seven and twenty-eight. A pen-flourished initial 'F' in blue and red ink introduces the next chapter. Jesus cries out to God asking why he has forsaken him and dies. At the death of Jesus the earth quakes and the dead rise from their graves. Joseph of Arimathea requests the body of Jesus from Pilate and takes the body to be buried in his tomb. The Jewish elders ask Pilate that men be placed on guard at the tomb so that the disciples of Jesus do not steal his body and claim that Jesus has risen from the dead. The written space is c. 207 x 133 mm in two columns.
Language Code: 
enm-GB
Subject: 
Crucifixion
Subject: 
Passion narratives (Gospels)
Subject: 
Bible. N.T.--Versions
Subject: 
Bible. N.T.
Subject: 
Bible. N.T. Gospels
Subject: 
Bible--Manuscripts, English
Subject: 
Bible. English (Middle English)--Versions--Wycliffe
Subject: 
Religion
Subject: 
Christianity
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Codex
Technique Used: 
Handwriting
Medium: 
Ink
Support: 
Vellum
Time Period Covered: 
1 BCE - 500 CE
Places Covered: 
Israel: Jerusalem
People Covered: 
Wycliffe, John, -1384
People Covered: 
Jesus Christ
People Covered: 
Joseph, of Arimathea, Saint
People Covered: 
Pilate, Pontius, 1st cent.
Item Height: 
270 mm
Item Width: 
192 mm
Current Repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Provenance: 
Danvers, Anne, Dame, "widowe, sumtyme wyffe to Sr William Danvers, knyght, hoose soule God assoyle hathe gevyn this present Booke unto mastre confessor and his Bretherne encloosed in Syon, etc."
Provenance: 
Reynolds, Edward (Fellow of Merton 1620 and warden 1660-1, bishop of Norwich 1661-76)
Provenance: 
Wilson, Lea
Provenance: 
Simonson, William, fellow of Merton College, Oxford.
Provenance: 
Rights Holder - Image: 
The University of Manchester Library
Rights holder - Work: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights: 
Creative Commons License
References: 
Tyson, Moses, 'Hand-List of the Collection of English Manuscripts in the John Rylands Library' (1928), p.19.
References: 
Parts of this catalogue have been reproduced from Ker, N.R., 'Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, vol. III, Lampeter-Oxford' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 406-7. By kind permission of Oxford University Press.
Bibliographic Citation: 
See Forshall, Josiah and Madden, Frederic, 'The Holy Bible, containing the Old and New Testaments, with the Apocryphal books, in the earliest English versions made from the Latin Vulgate by John Wycliffe and his followers' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1850), vol. 1, MS no.156.
Bibliographic Citation: 
Published as 'The New Testament in English translated by John Wycliffe circa MCCCLXXX : now first printed from a contemporary manuscript formerly in the monastery of Sion Middlesex late in the collection of Lea Wilson FSA' (Chiswick: William Pickering, 1848).
Bibliographic Citation: 
Cooper, W. R., 'The Wycliffe New Testament (1388): an edition in modern spelling, with an introduction, the original prologues and the Epistle to the Laodiceans, edited for The Tyndale Society' (London: British Library, 2002)
Notes: 
See English Manuscript 902 for transcript made by Mr. Lea Wilson.
Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd): 
2009-04-15
Multi Page Number: 
280
Image Creation Technique: 
Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
Date Image Added (yyyy-mm): 
2009-07
Metadata Language: 
eng-GB
Collection Code: 
Medieval